10 Things I Wish I Knew About Accessible Digital Media Before Becoming an Instructional Designer Ann Oro ~ Senior Instructional designer ~ Seton Hall Univesity, South Orange, NJ

College students can take advantage of documents' digital searchability and utilize closed captions whether or not they use the institution's disability services.

Workshop Description

Word-processed documents, presentation slide decks, PDFs, and videos can all be made ready for use by all students. It’s not just a good thing to do, it’s also the law. In this presentation, you will learn ten easy tips that can help anyone have a better experience using your digital documents.

This session will concentrate on Microsoft documents. The concepts will be applicable to other programs available on other platforms as well as documents created in the cloud.

The big ideas include the importance of headings, alternative text for images, tables, accessibility checkers, lists, font selection and color, slide titles, saving files as PDFs, reading order, and captioning.

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I have provided copies of a Word document with accessibility issues, with accessibility issues fixed, a PowerPoint document with accessibility issues, and accessibility issues fixed.